When She Unravels: A Dark Mafia Romance (The Fallen Book 1) by Gabrielle Sands

Author:Gabrielle Sands [Sands, Gabrielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GSands Publishing
Published: 2022-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

DAMIANO

Martina’s doing something on her laptop in the kitchen when I emerge from the secured room where I left Ale. Her earthy scent is all over my hands, and I resist the urge to take one big inhale before I wash my hands at the sink.

My gut told me she’d make me fucking crazy. Maybe it’s time I start listening to that particular organ more.

“What are you working on?” I ask casually, as if there isn’t a half-naked woman currently strung up a dozen feet below us.

She’s down there, in pain. The thought of it sends a crawling sensation over my skin.

“Nothing,” Martina says.

“Have you found a culinary program yet?”

She shakes her head. “No.”

I eye her as I dry my hands. She spent four years trying to convince me to let her go abroad for college only for her to scrap that entire plan after her abduction. She was supposed to move to England at the end of the summer. Now, there’s no chance of that. Mari didn’t even fight me on it. She hasn’t been herself since she came back. My sister’s got a gentle heart, and the death of her friend traumatized her, so I know she feels safer staying here with me. But I also know college was a dream of hers.

I keep telling her to find a good online program, but each time, she shrugs me off. I’m worried. It’s like she’s lost her spark. Cooking used to be her favorite thing, but she hasn’t made anything since she returned.

I don’t know what I can do to help her heal. But making sure that the man who took her is dead feels like a step in the right direction.

I walk over to look at her laptop and steal a piece of cheese off her plate. “Let’s look together.”

“What about the woman?”

“Mari, forget her, okay?”

She looks down at her hands. “I just… Well, she said she could explain. She did help me, Dem.”

“I know she did. But that doesn’t mean she’s guiltless, or that she’s not still helping whoever took you.” Ale knows who’s responsible for what happened, but she won’t tell me. If she was innocent and on the run, why would she hold that information back?

Our conversation its interrupted by a knock on the front door. “That’s probably Ras,” I say.

She nods and folds her laptop under her arm. “I’ll be up in my room. Nadia left dinner in the fridge, so I was thinking of warming it up in a bit. Are you going to be here?”

“I don’t know. I’ll let you know once I talk with Ras.”

“Okay,” she says. “Maybe we can bring some down to her too. She needs to eat.”

“I suppose she does.”

My sister nods and heads up the stairs.

I unlock the front door with the fingerprint scanner. One look at Ras’s face, and I know he found something.

“Tell me,” I say as he steps across the threshold.

He takes a black leather passport case out of the inside pocket of his jacket and hands it to me.

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